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Beautiful Creatures
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Bill Eagles
Written by Simon Donald
Produced bySimon Donald
Starring Rachel Weisz
Susan Lynch
Iain Glen
Maurice Roëves
Tom Mannion
Alex Norton
CinematographyJames Welland
Edited byJon Gregory
David Head
Music by Murray Gold
Production
company
Distributed by Universal Pictures International (through United International Pictures [1])
Release date
  • 23 August 2000 (2000-08-23) ( EIFF)
Running time
86 min
CountryUnited Kingdom
Languages English
German

Beautiful Creatures is a 2000 British crime film directed by Bill Eagles and starring Susan Lynch and Rachel Weisz. [2] Lynch received a British Independent Film Award nomination for her role.

Plot

Two women with bad taste in men are thrown together when one accidentally kills the other's boyfriend when attempting to stop a public beating. They attempt to rob the dead man's wealthy brother with a ransom scam, but when a corrupt detective gets involved things go awry.

Cast

Reception

On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 38% based on reviews from 60 critics. [3] On Metacritic it has a score of 40% based on reviews from 22 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". [4]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 1.5 out of 4 and wrote: "There is some dark humor in the movie, of the kind where you laugh that you may not gag." [5]

References

  1. ^ "Beautiful Creatures (1999)". BBFC. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
  2. ^ "Beautiful Creatures (2000)". MRQE. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
  3. ^ "Beautiful Creatures (2000)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  4. ^ "Beautiful Creatures". Metacritic.
  5. ^ Ebert, Roger (20 April 2001). "Beautiful Creatures movie review (2001)". Chicago Sun-Times.

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